Born in Adelaide in 1948, Peter Griffen has been painting for over fifty years. He lives and works in his warehouse studio in the inner west of Sydney and travels throughout Australia and overseas exhibiting and teaching.

Griffen has had over 70 solo exhibitions, most in Australia, with exhibitions in London, Paris, St Tropez, Lyon, New York and New Zealand. His participation in group exhibitions is also widespread; art fairs in Canada, UK, Belgium, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney, he has been a finalist in the Blake, Sulman, Dobell, Fleurieu, Eutick, Alice, Faber-Castell, Fishers Ghost, Biennale Internationale du Pastel (France) and has been invited to exhibit in the Tattersalls Landscape Exhibition, Brisbane, and Messagers de la Terre (France). He won the Muswellbrook aquisitive prize for works on paper.

His works are held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally. Since 2013 he has been the President of the Glebe Art Show and in 2022 became a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW.